Alessandro Magnasco
Alessandro Magnasco | |
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Born | |
Died | March 12, 1749 | (aged 82)
Nationality | Italian |
Education | Valerio Castello, Filippo Abbiati |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Baroque |
Alessandro Magnasco (February 4, 1667 – March 12, 1749), also known as il Lissandrino, was an
Life
Born in Genoa to a minor artist, Stefano Magnasco, he apprenticed with
Mature style
After 1710, Magnasco excelled in producing small, hypochromatic canvases with eerie and gloomy landscapes and ruins, or crowded interiors peopled with small, often lambent and cartoonishly elongated characters. The people in his paintings were often nearly liquefacted beggars dressed in tatters, rendered in flickering, nervous brushstrokes. Often they deal with unusual subjects such as synagogue services, Quaker meetings, robbers' gatherings, catastrophes, and interrogations by the Inquisition. His sentiments regarding these subjects are generally unclear.[2]
A century later he would be described as a "romantic painter: who painted with candid touches, and ingenious expressiveness, little figures in Gothic churches; or in solitude, hermits and monks; or scoundrels assembled in town squares; soldiers in barracks".
Origins of his style
The influences on his work are obscure. Some suspect the influence of the loose painterly style of his Venetian contemporary
Legacy
Magnasco's work may have influenced
His depictions of torture in The Inquisition (or perhaps named Interrogations in a Jail) are an atypical subject for Italian baroque paintings, as were his depictions of the religious ceremonies of Jews and Quakers. Yet it remains unsolved, according to Wittkower, "how much
Selected works
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The Tame Magpie (1707–08) Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Interrogations in Jail (c. 1710) Kunsthistorisches Museum
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Banditti at Rest (with Clemente Spera) (c. 1710) Hermitage Museum
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Garden Party in AlbaroStrada Nuova MuseumsGenoa
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Gypsy Wedding Banquet (1730–35) Louvre
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Dissipation and Ignorance destroy the Arts and Sciences (1735–1740) private collection
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Jewish Funeral, oil on canvas, 87 x 117 cm, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme
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Christ at the Sea of Galilee (c. 1740) National Gallery of Art Washington DC
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The Exorcism of the Waves (c. 1735), Memorial Art Gallery Rochester NY
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Christ attended by the Angels. C. 1705.Prado Museum. Madrid. Magnasco and Peruzzini.
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The painter's workshop. c. 1720. Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. Madrid.
Painting | Dates | Site | Link | |
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Gathering of Quakers | 1695 | Uffizi, Florence | ||
Theodosius Repulsed from Church by St. Ambrose | 1700-10 | Art Institute of Chicago | ||
Christ attended by angels | c. 1705 | Museo del Prado, Madrid | [1] | |
Christ and Samaritan Woman | 1705-10 | Getty Museum , Los Angeles
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[2] | |
Noli Me Tangere | 1705-10 | ibid | [3] | |
The Hunting Scene | 1710 | Wadsworth Atheneum | ||
Muletrain and Castle | 1710 | Louvre | [4] | |
Bacchanalian Scene | 1710s | Hermitage Museum | [5] | |
Halt of the Brigands | 1710s | ibid | [6] | |
Landscape with Washerwomen | 1710-20 | University of Michigan Museum of Art | [7] | |
The Inquisition or Interrogations in a Jail | 1710-20 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | [8] | |
The Temptation of Saint Anthony | 1710-20 | Louvre | [9] | |
Landscape with Shepherds | c. 1710-30 | São Paulo Museum of Art, São Paulo | [10] | |
Pulcinella singing with Family and Lute Player | 1710-35 | Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina | [11] | |
Three Camaldolite Monks at Prayer | 1713-14 | Rijksmuseum | [12] | |
Three Capuchin Friars Meditating in their Hermitage | 1713-14 | ibid | [13] | |
Christ Adored by Two Nuns | c. 1715 | Accademia | [14] | |
The Sack of a City | 1719-25 | Brukenthal National Museum, Abbey of Seitenstetten, Sibiu | ||
Satire of Nobleman in Misery | 1719-25 | Detroit Institute of Arts | [15] | |
The painter's workshop | c. 1720 | Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid | [16] | |
Bacchanale | 1720-30 | The Getty Center in Los Angeles | [17] | |
Triumph of Venus | 1720-30 | ibid | [18] | |
Interior with Monks | 1725 | Norton Simon Museum | [19] | |
Gamblers, Soldiers and Vagabonds | 1720-30 | Staatsgalerie Stuttgart | [20] | |
Supper of Pulcinella & Colombina | 1725-30 | North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh | [21] | |
The Synagogue | 1725-30 | Cleveland Museum of Art | ||
Consecration of a Franciscan Friar | c. 1730 | El Paso Museum of Art, Texas | [22] | |
Burial of a Franciscan Friar | c. 1730 | El Paso Museum of Art | [23] | |
Monks chapter | 1730-1740 | Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid | [24] | |
Sacrilegious Robbery | 1731 | intended for church of Siziano, now in Quadreria Arcivescovile, Milan | [25] | |
Exorcism of the Waves | after 1735 | Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York | [26] | |
Landscape with Travelers | 1735-1740 | New Orleans Museum of Art | ||
The Observant Friars in the Refectory | 1736-37 | Museo Civico di Bassano del Grappa | [27] | |
Figures Before a Stormy Sea | ca. 1740 | Honolulu Museum of Art | ||
The Entrance to a Hospital | Muzeul des Arta, Bucharest | |||
Landscape with Camaldolese friars |
Museo Giannetino Luxora, Genoa |
[28] | ||
The Marriage Banquet | Louvre | |||
Praying Monks | Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent | [29] | ||
Reception in a Garden | Palazzo Bianco, Genoa | |||
Seashore | Hermitage Museum | [30] | ||
Supper at Emmaus | Convent S. Francesco in Albaro, Genoa | |||
The Tame Magpie | Metropolitan Museum
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Two Hermits in Forest | Louvre | [32] | ||
A Hermit in the Desert | Lázaro Galdiano Museum, Madrid | [33] | ||
Untitled | [34] |
Notes
- ^ Alessandro Magnasco, called il Lissandrino (Genoa 1667-1749), Saint Joseph's dream at Christie's
- ^ a b c Wittkower 1993, p. 478
- ^ Dizionario geografico-storico-statistico-commerciale degli stati del Re di Sardegna, Volume 7, by Goffredo Casalis, Turin (1840), page 726: "potrebbe chiamarsi pittore romantico: dipingeva a tocchi franchi, e con isprezzatura ingegnosa, figure piccole in chiese d'architettura gotica, o in solitudini, romiti, cappuccini; ovvero mariuoli sulle piazze, soldati ne’quartieri".
- ^ Lanzi, Luigi (1847). History of Painting in Italy; From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Vol. III. Translated by Thomas Roscoe. London: Henry G. Bohn. p. 287.
- ^ Spike 1986, p. 87.
- ^ Lanzi, p. 287.
- ^ Wittkower, 1993, p. 478
References
- Raffaello Soprani, Carlo Giuseppe Ratti (a cura di), Vite de Pittori, Scultori ed Architetti Genovesi; In questa seconda Edizione rivedute, accresciute ed arricchite di note da Carlo Giuseppe Ratti Tomo Primo, Stamperia Casamara, dalle Cinque Lampadi, con licenza de superiori, Genova, 1769. Pagine 155-164
- Herman Voss, A Re-discovered Picture by Alessandro Magnasco, in The Burlington Magazine, LXXI, pp. 171–177. London 1937
- A Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Alessandro Magnasco, exhibition catalogue, Durlacher Bros, New York
- Golden Gate International Exhibition, California Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1940
- Maria Pospisil, Magnasco. Firenze 1944
- Benno Geiger, Magnasco. Bergamo 1949
- Antonio Morassi, Mostra del Magnasco, exhibition catalogue, Bergamo 1949
- Renato Roli, Alessandro Magnasco, Milano 1964
- V.Magnoni, Alessandro Magnasco, Roma 1965
- Alessandro Magnasco, exhibition catalogue, Louisville-Ann Arbor, 1967
- Fausta Franchini Guelfi, Alessandro Magnasco. Genova 1977
- Spike, John T. (1986). Centro Di (ed.). Giuseppe Maria Crespi and the Emergence of Genre Painting in Italy. p. 87.
- Fausta Franchini Guelfi, Alessandro Magnasco. Soncino (Cr) 1991
- Wittkower, Rudolf (1993). Art and Architecture Italy, 1600-1750. Penguin Books, Pelican History of Art. p. 478.
- L.Muti - D. De Sarno Prignano, Magnasco. Faenza 1994
- Alessandro Magnasco 1667-1749. Exhibition catalogue. Milano 1996
- C. Geddo, Alessandro Magnasco: una fortuna critica senza confini, ibidem, pp. 39–50
- Jane Turner (a cura di), The Dictionary of Art. 20, pp. 95–96. New York, Grove, 1996. ISBN 1-884446-00-0
External links
Media related to Alessandro Magnasco at Wikimedia Commons